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Winnersh, England, United Kingdom

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Staines Upon Thames, Uk

Amazon Feature Film “Heads of State”Key Responsibilities:• Communicating with crew members and looking after their weekly payroll.• Petty cash with Fuel, Mileage, Per Diems, and other crew expenses checking and processing.• Reporting to Production Accountant/Sargent Disk.• Creating a weekly payroll spreadsheet.• Using Engine, SD Payroll, DocuSign, Adobe Acrobat, and Excel daily.• Creating weekly payroll journal for PSL+.• Keeping strict deadlines.

Leavesden, England, United Kingdom

Skydance Productions - "The gorge"Key Responsibilities:- Looking after Construction and Greens department's budgets.- Creating weekly Cost Reports.- Checking and approving Payroll for PAYE and Loan Outs.- Checking and approving Materials, Skips, Plants, Rigging, and Equipment Hire expenses on weekly bases.- Checking and approving the correct Account Codes.- Reporting directly to Financial Controller.- Communicating with colleagues and crew members on daily bases.- Working with Smart Accounting, Smart PO, Engine, Excel, DocuSign, and Adobe Acrobat.- Keeping strict deadlines.

West London Film Studios, Hayes

Warner Bros Discovery - “Ted Lasso S3”Key Responsibilities:- AP – matching Invoices, sending for approvals by Adobe Acrobat Sign, entering to PSL+.- Entering POs to PSL+.- Maintaining the ledger.- Liaising with departments to help with payment requirements.- Reporting to Lead AP.- Communicating with suppliers and colleagues.

Ickenham, Uk

Disney - “Great Expectations”Key Responsibilities:- AP – matching Invoices, sending for approvals by DocuSign, entering to PSL+.- Maintaining the ledger.- Liaising with departments to help with payment requirements.- Creating Actuals reports by department.- Cast Per Diems.- Loan Outs payroll.- Reporting to Production Accountant.- Communicating with the crew, cast, suppliers, and colleagues.- Helping production - raising contracts in Engine, checking eligibility to work in the UK.

Shepperton, England, United Kingdom

Netflix - "Luther".Key Responsibilities:- Communicating with five department crew members and looking after their weekly payroll.- Reporting to Production Accountant/Sargent Disk.- Creating a weekly payroll spreadsheet.- Using SD Crew start, SD Payroll, DocuSign, Adobe Acrobat, and Excel on daily basis.- Creating weekly payroll journal and uploading to PSL+.- Keeping strict deadlines.

Aylesbury, England, United Kingdom

Apple TV - “Masters of the air” Producers: Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. Key Responsibilities:- Assisting SFX Buyer with a variety of ad-hoc finance tasks.- Buying/renting equipment, materials, and consumables.- Allocate all shared costs by percentage.- Using online DPO (Digital Purchase Order) system - raising purchase orders.- Ensuring accurate completion of the budget, allocating expenses to correct budget codes, and preparing weekly reports.- Communicating with suppliers and team members, especially with drivers regarding collections and returns. - Preparing Credit Card/Petty Cash reports, Wire Transfer requests and all necessary documentation for Accounts department.- Matching Requisition forms, Suppliers’ Invoices and Delivery notes. - Filling documentation by alphabetical and numerical order.- Controlling deliveries.

London, United Kingdom

Direct all business operations including sales/marketing campaigns through Facebook, Twitter, Etsy, Pinterest, and Instagram. Liaise with production specialists to implement new designs and secure finished high-quality, affordable leather goods made from sustainably sourced leather.Key Contributions:- Create and innovate simple designs for backpacks, handbags, handhelds, wallets and other goods. To date have created over 100 different designs.- Grow business via e-commerce, by negotiating contracts with boutiques/handcraft markets, such as the Duck Pond Market in Richmond, and by ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction.- 12,073 Facebook members follow this business and customers consistently rate the customer experience as 5 stars out of 5.

Teddington, Greater London, United Kingdom

Working at events and association management organisation with more than twenty years’ experience organising hundreds of conferences in the UK and around the world. Responsible for developing weekly, monthly and year-end reports showing analysis of the financial accounts. Key Responsibilities:- Assisting the Finance Manager with a variety of ad-hoc finance tasks.- Maintaining accounts payable/receivable ledgers. - Daily reconciliations.- Managing payments daily. Making sure these are accurately recorded. Ensuring timely payments to suppliers. - Processing Invoices. Raising sales Invoices. Ensuring all customers Invoices are sent on time. Checking that all fees are collected on a timely basis.- Credit control, chasing for outstanding payments by email, phone, setting up automatic reminders on Xero.- Dealing with employee expenses claims and payments.- Ensuring accurate completion of business and credit card expenses, including reconciliations, and working with financial systems, such as Xero, SagePay, Infusionsoft-Keap and Receipt Bank.- Working with different currencies: GBP, EUR, USD. Petty cash control.- Checking post for cheques, entering on the spreadsheet and taking to the bank to clear it.- Assisting in year-end information preparation for auditors.- Maintaining effective, co-operative working relationships with internal and external customers.- Developing weekly, monthly, and year-end reports showing analysis of the financial accounts.- Preparing reversed VAT documentation to EU customers.- Completing administrative paperwork for Company annual reporting procedures and similarly for client accounts.

Vilnius, Lithuania

Oversee full life-cycle of projects, including analysis of project promoters’ documentation, rating applications, monitoring promoter bills, controlling public procurement, and analyzing/evaluating reports. Liaise with project promoters, promoter partners, and representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science to facilitate project completion on-time and within budget.Coordinate full life-cycle project management of up to nine simultaneous projects in full compliance with European Union Funding Regulations once application receives approval from three-step, two-person rating process. Liaise with applicants/recipients to ensure understanding of application requirements, instruct in common mistakes to avoid, and guide revisions. Key Contributions:- Successfully qualified, funded, and completed more than 14 projects with a total value in excess of€10.24M to meet established annual goals.- Ensured average funding absorption of all projects was not less than 99%.- Recognised for best project in the “Final Agency & Project Promoter Event.”- Participated in filming of educational report to inform project promoters about agency purpose andproject funding parameters.- Spearheaded/collaborated in various agency events and employee training initiatives to improveemployee job satisfaction/morale such as:* Organisation /moderation of “Customer Service Standard” and introductory department eventquizzes.* Presented “Personal Finance Management Training.* Scheduled/arranged agency’s “Birthday Party.”* Participated in 10 public speaking training sessions sponsored by the Lecturer Club.* Resourced/scheduled “Healthy Nutrition” courses, Pilates Sport classes during lunch breaks, andafter work Salsa Solo classes.

London, United Kingdom

Supported Operations Manager in day-to-day tasks affecting colleagues and clients, oversaw virtual and in-houseoffices post, and assumed receptionist’s duties when necessary.Key Contributions:- Reviewed virtual office mailbox system records to qualify and redeem information cards.- Significantly reduced “Return to Sender” in virtual office mailbox system by identifying instances ofduplicate client names/addresses and by contacting clients as necessary to confirm correct contactinformation before deleting out-of-date records.

Vilnius, Lithuania

Administered projects financed by funds from the European Union.Organised international conferences, including negotiating co-operational proposals with sponsors, preparingcontracts, establishing budgets, securing speakers, preparing press releases, coordinating production ofconference materials, and compiling attendee data. Collected/analysed statistics and prepared reports forsubmission to stakeholders.Key Contributions:- Encouraged long-term participant relationships through regular contact.- Facilitated trips to printing houses for school children and read reports for students.- Represented the Association in foreign countries.

Vilnius, Liothuania

• Directing personnel of 15 employees;• Coordinating the work of employees in sewing and selling departments;• Observing product remains, ordering new products;• Selecting new employees;• Developing company‘s marketing;• Composing loyalty programs;• Searching for new customers;• Work with „Elite“ program;

Vilnius, Lithuania

• Computer work with a large database – IIS (Insurance Information System);• Communication with customers (in Lithuanian, Russian and English);• Replacing direct supervisor at the appropriate time, distributing work to the personnel.

Bachelor‘S Degree In Business Management And Administration, Commerce

Master‘S Degree In Public Sector Economics, Economics

Aat - Level 2, Accounting, Aat - Level 3